The latest version of the Android SDK, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, reached developers this week. For the first time, the SDK provides access to the Calendar application in a legitimate fashion. One of the most common tasks that developers often want to be able to do is create new events in the user's calendar, so today we'll show you how.

The Calendar is a common application that users rely upon on their Android devices. Applications can access the Calendar using the new APIs available in Android 4.0. Adding new events to the Calendar is simple and requires no special application permissions.

Note: The user is responsible for configuring the Calendar application with the appropriate Calendar accounts (e.g. Microsoft Exchange).